Grants & Opportunities

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Open and Upcoming Grants & Opportunities

Application Deadline: July 30

Become A Southern Circuit Screening Partner

Screening Partners present Southern Circuit film screenings, Q&As, and other filmmaker engagements with the community.

Application Deadline: July 30

Jazz Road Tours

Jazz artists, take your music to places it's never been. Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country.

Application Deadline: July 30

Southern Circuit: Call for Filmmakers

Screening Partners select films and filmmakers to tour from a curated shortlist of submitted and invited films. Films are evaluated for consideration based on the subject matter and themes, potential programming or partnerships, and the film's relationship to the South.

Submit your film for consideration

Application Deadline: July 30

Cross-Sector Impact Grants

These grants of up to $15,000 support "Arts &..." projects developed by partners—one arts organization or artist, and one non-arts organization—harnessing the power of collaboration.

Application Deadline: September 3

In These Mountains: Infrastructure Grants

Grants of $30,000 to organizations in Appalachian Regional Commission counties in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee to support non-programming expenses that are often not fundable by most grants or are financially out of reach for organizations.

Application Deadline: September 3

Accessibility Grants

Matching grants of up to $1,000 for organizations to make arts programs accessible to persons with disabilities.

Application Deadline: September 3

Emerging Traditional Artists Program

Connect with your peers, participate in professional development workshops, and receive up to $5,000 supporting your projects.

Application Deadline: September 3

Arts Readiness, Relief, and Recovery Grant

The Arts Readiness, Relief, and Recovery Grant will provide financial support to artists in need affected by Hurricane Helene and/or Hurricane Milton and provide activities that help artists collectively prepare for or mitigate the impact of such disasters in the form of disaster preparedness education.

Arts Readiness, Relief, and Recovery Grant

Application Deadline: September 3

Arts in Community Grants

Grants up to $10,000 for arts organizations to receive support for community engagement projects.

Rolling Deadline through April 30, 2026

Arts in Rural Places

Open to organizations in rural, isolated, or small communities, the Arts in Rural Places Grant program offers expedited awards of up to $3,000 supporting community engagement projects.

Rolling Deadline through April 30, 2026

Artist Creative Practice

The Artist Creative Practice Grant supports a variety of professional development opportunities including milestone activities in an artist's career that will likely lead to substantial career growth.

Rolling Deadline through April 30, 2026

Professional Development Grants for Arts Organizations

These grants offer up to $1,000 to support the professional development needs of Southern arts organizations with operating budgets of $500,000 or less.

Ongoing

Call for Presenters and Venues

We are looking for presenters of all types, from jazz clubs to places of worship to performing arts centers to house concerts to non-traditional presenters, and communities from rural or isolated to urban.

Additional Information

Closed and Archived Grants & Opportunities

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View our Recently Closed Grants and Opportunities

Search Our Grant and Fellowship Recipients

Meet South Arts' grant and fellowship recipients, and search through the projects we have funded.